I know this idea seems tenuous, but I hope to establish a mental jump between the human brain and the environment. Together, we might be able to control the weather. Call me fanciful—well, I'm an author. More warnings were issued in the UK about at least three more days of heavy rain and flooding as the west coast counted its losses following the arrival of Winter Storm Hercules. The system left behind a record-breaking deep freeze in the US. I hope those affected are recovering. Last night a flood siren, warning of extreme danger to people and property, filled the air in Dorset because of gales and tidal surges battering the coast. Waves have destroyed many ancient cliff constructions all around the south coast.

The tip of England - www.bbc.co.uk

Yesterday waves were recorded as high as 27ft at Land's End. Reports on surfing websites suggested scores of professional big wave chasers had followed Hercules' advance across the Atlantic. Just as the WWW connects like-minded people all over the world, websites link surfers. I want to point out the miraculous contact between people at our fingertips right now. The connection has never happened before. Back in the 40s, I wouldn't have thought such an exchange possible. Pen-palls were the closest we children came to getting to know someone who lived overseas. I've made some really good blogging friends over the last year. Amy, who blogs about home-schooling, organic food, a beautiful way to live, and family life http://vomitingchicken.com/ and Alana, who talks about plants in New York, civil war and chocolate. http://ramblinwitham.blogspot.co.uk/ The net also assists writers, and more particularly, co-writers. Edith Parzefall & I wrote four futuristic novels together, starting with Wind Over Troubled Waters. All my books are based in Cornwall, at the southern tip of England. I love the mystical area. You'll see the books on the sidebar, one click away from Amazon. This is how we wrote together: Edith is based in Germany whereas I live near London—1 hour apart. We worked well together, gave respect and patience, sometimes sending more than 20 emails a day. At the start, we picked characters. We tried to keep them distinctive, although we went over each other’s work constantly. We wrote very fast and sent each scene in our character's point of view to our partner before she wrote the next one from another perspective. I did all the character profiles, but Edith chucked them out the window as each person in the novel developed. Still, it was good to have something to disregard. You will note how I'm leading up to a connection of minds without physical presence. Of course, the same thing happens with the telephone although people can't share pictures or documents that way. We know the mind possesses great power. Thoughts become things in the air around us, as proven by Russian scientists in the 40s. According to the renowned psychic Edgar Cayce, every action, every thought, every idle word sets up reactions, according to the Universal Law. In the past, I've proven that, with enough force behind my belief in being able to 'move a mountain'; I could influence weather far away. A cyclone I concentrated on disappeared from the atmosphere. Hard to believe—I'm sure. I felt credulous at the time. At the present moment, as they have for decades, people living along the San Andreas Fault line send calming emanations into the air to keep the earth stable. And so, with that unsubstantiated link demonstrated, I wonder if every person reading this blog (normally between 200 to 700 visits) would send a prayer, wish, or earnest desire to England and help us calm the raging storm.

Well, I'm skeptical, but I certainly do hope you're right! The problem with this kind of thinking is that if you agree that thinking hard enough will make it so, that implies that everyone who dies of starvation or cancer or whatever just didn't pray/wish/whatever hard enough, or have enough friends to do so for him/her. Is there some minimum number of people who have to send those prayers/wishes to make it happen?

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Francene Stanley

2/8/2014 10:54:52 pm

I know what your mean, Rachael. Not everything we wish for will eventuate. What if we wished for evil? There would be dire consequences. However, I like the possibility of offering help in a spiritual way.

yes, I agree with rachel. On the one hand I know that we do influence things but on the other, well, I have a friend who is very ill, she has prayed, she has done everything imaginable to recover - healthy food, lifestyle, other people have prayed for her, etc etc so if praying has not worked for her does that mean she is a bad person, has done something wrong etc - I know it makes her feel bad when people suggest to her is all she has to do is pray and imagine being better etc -I know Professor Emoto shows how our thoughts effect water etc and there are many others scientists who have proven the power of belief etc but sometimes I think we take things too far.

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Francene Stanley

2/8/2014 10:57:30 pm

I guess, we just have to accept that some thing will never happen. Perhaps there is a higher purpose. I don't know the way creation works, and neither does anyone else. I'd like to think that earnest desires, used for the good of all, will do some good.

I will do that, and I thank you for naming me as your blogging friend but...Francene, I don't know. My friend of 51 years has been battling cancer the last two years; she's on prayer lists and has an upbeat attitude. But, she came out of remission several months ago and now they just found a spot in her brain. (Her cancer can spread to the brain.) Yet, I do believe in the power of thought and I will continue to send good thoughts to my friend, and to Britain. (On your end, could you try to get the continental U.S. to warm up?)

You are a fanciful thinker, Francene, as good novelists ought to be! Thank you for the mention, you are very sweet, and I feel in great company to be mentioned in the same post as the excellent Alana. :) I'm skeptical about your theory that the mind can control events, but I know that God who created the Universe, also listens to prayers and answers them when they are within His will. I will pray for you and that the weather forecasts for your area calm down and give you peace.